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Rachel Carson: Under the philosophy...

Rachel Carson: Under the philosophy...

Under the philosophy that now seems to guide our destinies, nothing must get in the way of the man with the spray...

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Always read stuff...

Always read stuff...

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

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Haste maketh waste....

Haste maketh waste....

Haste maketh waste.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex...

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Whatever it is...

Whatever it is...

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else....

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Maggie Kuhn: There must be...

Maggie Kuhn: There must be...

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Source: In...

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He looked at...

He looked at...

He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.

Source: Referring to W....

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STREETS FULL OF...

STREETS FULL OF...

STREETS FULL OF WATER. PLEASE ADVISE.

Source: On arriving in Venice;...

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The more I...

The more I...

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. . . . this spontaneous talking back to a book [is] one of the things...

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The epic implications...

The epic implications...

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with...

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The great artist...

The great artist...

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Source: In

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Play -- Work...

Play -- Work...

Play -- Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Luther Burbank: Flowers always make...

Luther Burbank: Flowers always make...

Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family...

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Luther Burbank: Less than fifteen...

Luther Burbank: Less than fifteen...

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject . . . The greatest torture in the...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: The delicate and...

Catharine Esther Beecher: The delicate and...

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: As if reasoning...

Catharine Esther Beecher: As if reasoning...

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is...

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Yogi Berra: I don't want...

Yogi Berra: I don't want...

I don't want to make the wrong mistake.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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The true snob...

The true snob...

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and...

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Yogi Berra: It ain't over...

Yogi Berra: It ain't over...

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Source: In Pearls of Wisdom, ed. J. Agel and W....

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Every journalist has...

Every journalist has...

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Source:...

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